Orchestra
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BA.BA10989
Laudon. Composed
by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Edited by Sonja Gerlach
and Wolfgang Stockmeier.
This edition: urtext
edition. Stapled. Score.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA10989_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA10989).
ISBN
9790006575534. 31 x 24.3
cm inches. Key: C
major.
Letters of
the composer have come
down to us only on a few
of Haydn’s
symphonies, amongst them
the “Laudonâ€
Symphony Hob. I:69. In
one of these letters,
Haydn agrees to the
publisher’s
suggestion to name the
symphony after the widely
known and favoured
general Gideon Ernst von
Laudon (1717-1790). By
using this name, both
composer and publisher
hoped to increase the
commercial success of the
work which possibly
deserved a military
eponym considering its
instrumentation with
timpani and trumpets.
Also, the symphony
requires two bassoons,
but no flutes,
corresponding with the
available musicians at
the court of Esterházy
between 1775 and 1776.
In continuation
of the collaboration
between Bärenreiter
and G. Henle Verlag, this
edition is based on the
Urtext of the Complete
Edition “Joseph
Haydn Worksâ€
published by G. Henle
Verlag.
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